In the wake of the Apple iPhone 6 launch, scammers, skansters and fraudsters have been busy setting up Apple themed social network pages, fraudulent competitions and SMS and email phishing campaigns, in order to get their hands on your sensitive information. Here are some tips to guard against their tricks.

A digital detox is the latest trend in retreats. Communities are actually depriving themselves of decent broadband connections in order to brand themselves as ‘digital-free destinations’ to attract visitors. The Grenadines in the Caribbean have resorts offering digital detox holiday packages. What does this include you ask?

It reflects extremely positively on the company, its staff and its products. From the customer perspective, it’s also a glowing endorsement because it means they’re using some of the best security software on the market.

With the internet still evolving, often at a dizzying pace, change in the way it influences our lives is inevitable. Yet there are some constants that remain the same, and protecting personal data is one of them, even in world that may be radically different 15 years from now.

Whether you’ve just returned from a holiday, are planning a trip or are about to set off on a business journey check out this new infographic. It gives you the run down on a raft of Android apps that help make travelling so much easier.

Setting off on your travels is a great feeling whether you’re planning on kicking back on a beach, clambering up snow-capped mountains or exploring a new city and country. It’s a real buzz.

Microsoft stopped supporting its Windows XP operating system for ordinary users back in April of this year. But there are still millions of people using it for various reasons from software that is incompatible with newer versions of Windows to hardware designed specifically to run off XP. As such there are ways to protect XP users but in the final analysis XP signals the end of an era as we slide into mobile, anywhere, anytime computing.

Some data breaches are small such as stolen laptops and some are enormous like retailers that get hacked and lose millions of customer details. But all have the potential to wreak great damage. In the face of what sometimes seems like a deluge of personal data exposures many people might feel powerless. However, there are simple and effective measures that can be taken to safeguard data and protect against the negligence of others.